A History of Western Philosophy

Hailed as lucid and magisterial by The Observer, this book is universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject of Western philosophy. Considered to be one of the most important philosophical works of the twentieth century, A History of Western Philosophy examines philosophers, scientists, mathematicians, and statesmen from Pythagoras through Bertrand Russell himself. Russell's own penetrating analysis of philosophical problems is woven throughout, and this extraordinary breadth of learning results in a magisterial survey of the philosophical tradition from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century. First published in 1945, this work helped win Russell the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.